Three associations of pensioners are asking the Prime Minister and the President to accept them, because the previous Government did not fulfill the agreement on improving their financial and social situation
The Association of Pensioners of Serbia, the Association of Unions of Pensioners of Serbia and the Association of Pensioners of Serbia "Nezavisnost" announced that they sent a request to the Prime Minister and the President of Serbia to receive them, in order to agree on the further improvement of their material and social situation and to establish a common strategy.
Miloš Grabundžija from the Union of Pensioners "Nezavisnost" he told N1 that after the last meeting with the then Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and Minister Sinisa Mali, although there was an agreement on improving the position of pensioners, "nothing was realized even though they were promised". That is why they have now requested another meeting with the new prime minister and also with the president of Serbia.
Because the current situation is humiliating.
Almost half a million pensioners have incomes lower than guaranteed, that is, less than 24.987 dinars. As many as 10 thousand pensioners have incomes of up to 61 thousand dinars.
"When we pensioners pay for electricity, water and garbage because that's the only thing that can be paid for with that money, we don't even have medicine. And that's what we blame ourselves for the most. And most pensioners manage to survive because they are the burden of their children," said Miloš Grabundžija.
He believes that "one-time benefits should only be given to those with the smallest pensions, which are below average for it to have any purpose." Otherwise it's just flattery. There are one million and 652 thousand pensioners in Serbia, and they are the electorate. By giving help, some will vote for the government, but some will not sell themselves for even 200 dinars. Everyone says that pensioners hold Vučić, but that is not true, everyone holds him, and then we suffer. We feel rejected and humiliated and the state only needs three months before the election", said Grabundžija.
He says that the media is creating a conflict between pensioners and young people.
"It is pretended that we are a burden to young people and that we should not exist, and no one is saying that we were once in the place of those young people." Everything is done to make pensioners hate each other. "No one is involved in the education of the young or the old, we are lost in a time that we think should be the same now, and the young will not get up in the transport," he explained.
He expects that "Vučević and Vučić will receive them because it is in their interest, so that the negative campaign about the government would not spread." From 2014 to 2018, when they reduced pensions, that reduction has not yet been returned. What they took from us, they must return according to market conditions. Especially for pensioners who have less than 25 thousand dinars, because they have not been adjusted. We are also asking that pensions be adjusted monthly, i.e. increased, and we have a formula for how to do that," said Miloš Grabundžija from the "Nezavisnost" Pensioners' Union.
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